Improvement in dies for molding buttons



dai-ted datea WILLIAM M. WELLING, OF NEW YORK,`N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 108,660, dated October 2 5, 1870. g

IMPROVEMENT IN DIES FOR MOLDING BUTTONS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all whome't may concern.'-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. WELL1NG,of the city and State of vNew York, have invented au Iniprovementin Dies forMolding Buttons, &e.; and thefollowing is declared to he a correct description thereof.

This die is for making sleeve-buttons and other articles ont of plastic compositions by pressure.

Reference is hereby made to Letters Patent num-v hered 77,938, 89,100, 89,531, and 89,532, as descrihing compositions', to theY pressing ot which 4this die may be employed.

In the drawing- Figure l is a plan of the ornamental die that makes the face of the buttons;

Figure 2 is an inverted plan of the under face of the die that forms the shank;

Figure 3 isa cross-section at the line x x; aud

Figure 4 is a vertical section of a button Vmolded in my dies. l

In making buttons,a metal shank in the form of a disk or a wire loop has been used, and plastic composition has been pressed around such shank.

With my present device I am enabled to make the entire button of the plastic composition, and thereby avoid the expense of the metal shauks and plates, and the articles are stronger, and there is nothing of metal to tarnish, as so frequently happens with-articles of this class.

The die a is made of a block of metal, the surface of which-is recessed, as atb b, in the ornameutalform required for the article that is to he made.

rlhe two-part die c d is hinged together at one end at e, and the pins f serve to guide and steady the die c d, as it is pressed upon the die a, and the flanges g at the sides prevent the dies c fl separating.

p In the contiguous inner edges of the dies c el recesses l h are formed for the shank and button-head, respectively, of the usualY size and style;'hnt if the dies c d were made rigid or out 'of one piece, the buttou-heads could not be removed, therefore, the two pieces of the die c (l are hinged at c, and can be opened for the relnoval of the shank and disk of the button.

Around the recessed portion. I) ofthe die a, there is a cavity, 7t,iuto which surplus materi-al will he pressed, and afterward removed.

If stones areto be inserted in the button to form eyes for animals heads, as shown, or for other ornamental purposesthe die bis to he recessed at the proper point or points to receive the stones or imitations, so that the plastic mass maybe pressed around such stones to hold them in place.

It is u'ow to be understood that a piece of plastic material is placed in each cavity in the die av of a proper size for the article to be made, and, generally,

it will be necessary to have the plastic material in a hot state, and the dies also warm.

XVheuthe diec d is pressed upon the plastic material, the cavitytfor the shank is filled, and the plastic` material spread to ll the cavity in a, and such plastic material is firmly compressed and compacted, the surplusl material passing over into the recess k.

Vhen the material is sufficiently set, the dies a and c l are -to be drawn apart, the button will be lifted out Aby the dies c d, and then liberated by opening those dies c d, allowing the vpin and disk forming the shank of the button to be disengaged. V

The button is then removed, and the iin or feather that may have been formed upon the button at the l divisions of the mold is separated or removed.

I claim as my invention- 'Ihe divided die c (l, with the recesses for the shanks l Witnesses:

GEO. T. Bruckner, CHAs. H. SMITH. 

